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body, yellowish-browD, marked with greyish-brown ; 

 breast and abdomen white, the former spotted with 

 brown ; lower taU-coverts greyish-white, mottled 

 with brown ; tail and upper tail-coverts dark brown, 

 glossed with green ; rump, back, and hind neck, 

 dark brown, glossed with green and purple ; bill 

 dusky, feet dull greeij. The crest less than that 

 of the male, and plain dull brown. Length twenty 

 inches ; wing eight inches and a half. 



This is an extremely beautiful duck, but of mode- 

 rate size ; it is rare on the sea-coast, but absolutely 

 swarms during the month of September among the 

 lily-pads of the Western swamps. Fed upon the - 

 berry of this plant, called at the South chincapin, it 

 becomes fat and deliciously tender. It does not 

 pay much attention to decoys. 



Geeen-Wingbd Teal. 



Anas. 



Anas Crecca, Wils. 



Specific Character. — Bill black, short, and nar- 

 row ; the outer webs of the first five secondaries 

 black, tipped with white; the next five plain rich 

 green, forming the speculum; secondary coverts 

 tipped with pale reddish-buflF. Adult male with a 

 dusky band at the base of the bill, of which color is 

 the throat ; a faint white band under the eye ; upper 

 part of the neck, sides of the head, and the crown, 

 chestnut brown ; a broad band of bright green com- 

 mencing behind the eye, passing down on the nape, 



